Chapter 113: Opening Maritime Trade Routes [1]

Li Cunhuan said as he helped Han Mengyin up, as if he was treating an elder, and asked Han Mengyin to sit down, and then sat down. And instead of returning to the main seat and sitting down, he sat down next to Han Mengyin, with an attitude of equal treatment.

Han Mengyin couldn't help but be a little flattered, he originally felt very angry when he saw that Li Cunhuan did not reward him. At the banquet, he also thought about why Li Cunhuan didn't reward him, Han Mengyin thought about it for a long time, and finally thought that there was only one possibility. In order to curry favor with Li Cunxiao, Li Cunhuan adopted an attitude of neither rewarding nor punishing himself, and came to appease Li Cunxiao's resentment.

Thinking of this, Han Mengyin was naturally even more angry, he thought that coming over this time would make Li Cunhuan feel a little guilty no matter what, so that he could reap the benefits later. However, he didn't expect that Li Cunhuan respected him so much, which made Han Mengyin a little at a loss for a while.

However, Han Mengyin is not an ordinary person after all, he immediately thought of a solution, changed the tone of preparation before, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, I heard that the dog once ridiculed the adult, and the lower official is here to make amends to the adult for the dog!" ”

After Han Mengyin finished speaking, he stood up and bowed to Li Cunhuan.

Li Cunhuan hurriedly held Han Mengyin's arms, and asked with some doubts: "Han Thorn Shi Duoli, but I don't know who the son of Han Thorn Shi is?" ”

"The dog's name is Han Yanhui!" Although Han Mengyin called his son a dog, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a touch of triumph. It can be seen that he is still very satisfied with his son.

Li Cunhuan groaned slightly, and immediately understood who Han Mengyin was talking about, Li Cunhuan suddenly said with a look of enlightenment: "The little messenger is the son of the Han Thorn family. At a young age, he is already a talent, and he must be the dragon and phoenix among people! I don't have a record here to join the army, I don't know how Han Tingshi asked Han Gongzi to serve as it? ”

Han Mengyin naturally knew about Li Cunhuan's recruitment of his son, but he just used this to elicit what he wanted to say. His face changed, and he said with a sigh: "It's good!" However, this offended Deputy Envoy Li Jiedu, I'm afraid it ...... Ay! ……”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile. As soon as he heard this, he naturally knew Han Mengyin's thoughts. smiled and said: "I know what Han Tingshi said, but what I mean, Han Tingshi doesn't know." ”

"Oh!" Han Mengyin asked a little cautiously, "I don't know what the adults mean?" ”

Li Cunhuan walked behind his mahogany desk, pointed to the map hanging high on the wall, and said, "This is Silla, here is Yuben, and this is Lu Long." Did you find anything? ”

Han Mengyin pondered for a moment, and asked with some uncertainty: "Is the envoy of the festival ready, preparing to send troops to Silla and Yuben?" But does it have anything to do with me? ”

Could it be that Li Cunhuan asked me to be the commander of this dispatch? Han Mengyin thought suspiciously.

Li Cunhuan shook his head and said, "If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" To think about conquering other countries before the country is stable, this is not bravery, but recklessness. Speaking of this, Li Cunhuan paused, pointed to the wall under the map, and said: "Although this map is only a map of Hebei, according to the map of the world, this is Jiangnan." There is chaos in the world right now, but there are still two places that are the richest. ”

"Yang (Yangzhou) Yiyi (Yizhou) two!" Han Mengyin seemed to understand what Li Cunhuan meant.

Li Cunhuan nodded and said: "Although Yangzhou has been war-torn for a long time during this time, first Bi Shiduo, and then Sun Ru, these two [***] chaotic Yangzhou, but the foundation of Yangzhou is here, the salt of the world, eight out of Yangzhou." The rice of the south of the Yangtze River is the first in Yangzhou. In addition, in recent years, Yang Xingmi's policy of recuperation and recuperation in Yangzhou has been realized. Yangzhou's vitality has been restored. ”

Speaking of this, Li Cunhuan glanced at Han Mengyin and asked, "Can Han Tingshi tell me what specialties this and Silla have?" ”

Han Mengyin had already grasped Li Cunhuan's thoughts, he glanced at Li Cunhuan in disbelief, and said, "Is the envoy of Jiedu preparing to open up a trade route?" ”

Li Cunhuan smiled noncommittally, looked at Han Mengyin and said, "Han Tingshi will answer my question first!" ”

Han Mengyin pondered for a moment and said: "The biggest specialty of Yuben is gold and raw silk, but what they lack the most is copper coins, I remember that there was such a thing a few years ago, there was a merchant who took a boat, about 500,000 copper coins, 300 taels of silver to go to sea, and came back to Yueben, but exchanged for half a boatload of raw silk (silk) some pearls and gold. And I heard from people, it is said that the exchange rate of gold and copper coins there is one or two gold and four copper coins! ”

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this, he relied on gold to raise soldiers in Danzhou. Now although the gold mines in Danzhou are open, they have become a major taxpayer in Danzhou. Li Cunhuan naturally knows the price of gold better, now Lulong has more gold, the price is one or two gold and nine yuan, if you go to the Guanzhong area, you can exchange it for about ten five hundred yuan, and when you go to the south, you can exchange it for about ten yuan. If you take the south as a trip, that is, a trip to the capital, you don't need to buy any goods, that is, currency exchange, and the profit of 1.5 times in the middle can make people crazy.

Li Cunhuan remembered that Marx said that how much profit can make the capitalist do what it takes, and 100 percent of the profit is enough for the capitalist to trample on all the laws of the world. And what about a hundred and fifty percent profit?

Li Cunhuan took a long breath and said, "This is really an unbelievable profit!" ”

Han Mengyin shrugged his shoulders and said: "My lord, you have forgotten the risk, the merchant who went to sea for the second time never came back, it is said that he encountered a storm at sea, and some people say that because of the severance of diplomatic relations between Yuben and the Tang Dynasty, the princes there are not afraid of the Tang Dynasty, and the surname Suo killed the merchant and robbed them of their wealth!" ”

"Damn it!" Li Cunhuan muttered dissatisfiedly, but he knew that this was inevitable, now that the Tang Dynasty had rotted, even a small country would dare to break off diplomatic relations with the Tang Dynasty, which had to be said to be an unacceptable shame for the Tang Dynasty.

"As for Silla, the specialty there is medicinal herbs, yes! Medicine! Han Mengyin's eyes widened, and then he came to his senses, "Why didn't I think of it!" Now there is war everywhere, and medicinal materials are in short supply, and if you get these medicinal materials, whether you sell them or use them yourself, you can save or get more money. ”

Li Cunhuan smiled and nodded, he knew that Han Mengyin had said that the idea was up.

ps: There is something today, update early. About many readers say that the katana is not suitable for the Chinese battlefield, or rather, it is not suitable for the battlefield. Let me say here that the two major knives used in the war of the Tang Dynasty were the Mo knife and the horizontal knife, and the katana was actually said to have secretly learned Chinese technology, improved the horizontal knife, and made the katana.

So I would like to ask, why can horizontal swords, which are inferior to katanas, appear on the battlefield, but katanas cannot or are not suitable for the Chinese battlefield? Are you disgusted by the fact that the katana is made in a book? In fact, the samurai sword, one of the world's three famous swords, was transformed by the horizontal knife technology stolen by the book, and it can be said that the katana is the descendant of the horizontal sword, and it is also the descendant of Chinese civilization.

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